[45680] in Cypherpunks
Re: Motorola Secure Phone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Rose)
Wed Dec 20 15:54:23 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 14:51:54 EST
From: Mike Rose <mrose@stsci.edu>
To: dan@milliways.org
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
>I saw a new cordless phone made by Motorola in a retail outlet today
>that is supposedly "Secure from eavesdroppers." I asked the
>salespeople for more technical info, but they weren't very helpful.
>Does anyone have any information on this?
I have one of these, it's a good phone. I think the security will
stop only an off-the shelf scanner. My understanding is that the
signal is not encrypted, but only phase-inverted or otherwise shifted.
Mike
